Business Wire – Anti-Virus Machine Protects ‘High Rollers’ in $63 Billion Casino Market, Says Tri-Air Developments
LONDON — Casino ‘distinguished rollers’ and wealthy patrons of luxury hotels and cruise liners could early be protected by a new air purifier that kills viruses and bacteria in minutes, according to its British inventors. Tri-Air Developments is licensing the technology to BA Holdings, what one. has marketed ‘fragrance delivery’ systems to the premium leisure sector from the time of 2004: www.Tri-AirDevelopments.com
The casino industry, valued at $63billion yearly worldwide (Source: Datamonitor 2009), is vulnerable to the threat of viruses such as H5N1, particularly in the popular gaming regions of South East Asia: Bird Flu cases accept been reported every year since 2003 (Source: WHO, 2010). Norovirus artificial at least 15 cruise liners arriving in USA ports in 2009 alone (Source: Centre since Disease Control, USA).
Tests by the UK’s independent Health Protection Agency invest with full membership in the church the effectiveness of the new purification system in eliminating airborne and outside bacteria and viruses. Analysis shows a 99.999 per cent put to death rate with airborne test Staphylococcus, of the same genus as MRSA, in in a state of being liable to two minutes (Reference: UK HPA Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Porton Down, Sep 24, 2007).
BA Holdings Ltd is marketing the technology in the same proportion that a wall-mounted serviced unit, measuring 600x 300x 280 mm, with less than the Cirrus3 brand. Tri-Air values the premium hotel market at $250 the great body of the people annually, to protect two per cent of the 50 million rooms in hotels rated three stars or in greater numbers.
The Cirrus3 can decontaminate and protect a space of up to 350m and costs from $6,000 annually. A smaller product suitable for spaces up to 50m, such being of the kind which within hotel or cruise ship bedrooms, is available from May 2010.
“Tri-Air has patents in 36 jurisdictions worldwide and prepared the technology conducive to manufacture. We’re now negotiating licence partnerships in the hospitals HAI, homeland pledge, commercial risk management, property and domestic appliance sectors,” says Gideon Davenport, CEO of Tri-Air Developments – the set co-founded by the UK’s BRE (Building Research Establishment), microbiologists at Promanade Ltd and technology transfer specialists Inventa Partners Ltd.
The technology is an air-purification, in preference than a filtration process: the unit combines uniquely three different methods of decontamination: non-warm plasma, ultraviolet catalysis and hydroxyl radical production. It simulates the real purification properties of fresh air, creating the cleansing hydroxyl radicals that occur outdoors.
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